Ashish Joshi: The cigar-smoking bureaucrat on whose complaint CBI raided Delhi secretariat

Ashish Joshi, an Indian Post and Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service officer, concedes he smokes cigars, but not in the office premises as alleged by an Aam Aadmi Party leader when Joshi was forced to relinquish the post of Member Secretary, Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC). Joshi, believed to be close to AAP’s ideology then, was let down, and he in turn complained against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s key bureaucrat Rajendra Kumar, a 1989 batch IAS. Know more about Ashish Joshi:

CBI Raid On Delhi Secretariat: More about Rajendra Kumar, IIT alumnus, IAS

IT WAS a cold Tuesday morning in Delhi. But political heat was unprecedented, as the CBI raided the office of Rajendra Kumar, principal secretary to Delhi CM in a case dated back to 2002-2005. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal took to social media to announce that his office was raided. Then he countered the CBI's claims: “CBI lying. My own office raided. Files of CM office are being looked into. Let Modi say which file he wants?” BoI here is not going into the charges and counter-charges, but simply tells its readers who is Rajendra Kumar, an officer quite close to…

AAP kaa IAS Rajendra Kumar: More about this Kejriwal’s pick, his IIT background, PM’s award

WHEN 1989 batch AGMU cadre IAS Rajendra Kumar on Tuesday drove down to meet Delhi’s chief minister designate Arvind Kejriwal in his Ghaziabad residence, speculations arose about Kumar becoming Kejriwal’s key bureaucrat. Like Kejriwal, 47-year-old Kumar is also an IIT alumnus and is personally known to Kejriwal who left Indian Revenue Service to be a social activist and then a politician. Kumar is tipped to be Kejriwal’s principal secretary once…